Finding The Right Pallet Supplier for Your Company
Business relationships between companies and their suppliers can be a complicated process. Finding a pallet supplier who can provide the best pallets that meet all of your pallet needs means you can have a strong and positive partnership. You won’t have to spend unnecessary time transferring your orders to new suppliers after finding out your needs won’t be consistently met. A supplier that doesn’t provide a great service can impact your business, profits, and backup your part in a greater supply chain. This can have massive impacts on your industry. The act of choosing a pallet supplier should be done with care.
Customer Service from Your Pallet Supply Partner
When working with a pallet supplier keep in mind their responsibility to your supply chain. As a vendor you need reliable companies to supply you with the tools you require including wood pallets. A great pallet supply company will understand the needs of your business and work with you on delivery dates, custom orders, and creating a healthy relationship between your companies. They should be able to provide prompt responses, answer questions, and communicate clearly. Any issues you face should be answered with a solution. Working with a supplier who understands the importance of your pallet supply is vital to ensuring consistency.
Pallet Manufacturer Services
Understanding your supplier’s full list of services helps to predict if they will be able to provide unique solutions for you. Some suppliers can offer recycled pallets, or purchase your pallets back after they aren’t serving your needs anymore so they can reuse the materials. Franke’s offers precision manufacturing with CNC machines, heat-treated wood options, on-sight (on-site) packaging shipments, specialty die cutting, packaging design devices?, and more.
Industry Standards of Your Pallet Supplier
Pallet Materials & Construction
Making high-quality pallets begins with the right materials. As a pallet supplier we both? provide a wide variety of materials options, and construction options. Our construction options include skid, heat-treatment, block, stringer, recycled, and more. With wood being our most popular product, we provide different options for wood materials to optimize budgets, weight requirements, and the size of the products you’re shipping. We offer custom features so your business can operate most efficiently. From custom braces to foam, we accommodate businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Types of Pallets We Ship
Franke’s Wood Products offers standard 48×40 pallets, but can customize pallets to meet your business’s supply needs. 2-way and 4-way pallets are both available. Pallets can be made with heat-treated, or non heat-treated wood. By offering sheeting, soft wood, and hard wood pallets we provide the exact products that businesses need. Pallets are able to have saddles, braces, and other add-ons to fit the needs of all our customers. If you are searching for custom sized wood pallets contact us and we can create a quote for your company.
Where Does Your Supplier Ship?
Pallet manufacturers who are able to ship across the region or country tend to be the best options. When working with a pallet company that won’t ship to all areas you need you may end up working with several pallet suppliers. This can be a logistical headache.
As longtime professionals in the pallet industry, we have provided wood pallets for over fifty years. We ship across the entire country by utilizing qualified 3PLs, and offer fleet support delivery throughout all of Ohio. If you have questions regarding our local delivery and shipping process feel free to reach out!
What Are The Quality Standards of Their Pallets
The quality that pallet suppliers provide can range significantly. A company that is shipping lighter shipments all domestically and shouldn’t waste money on extremely durable pallets designed for heavy loads. Either way, ensuring your pallets are made to last ensures you’re not replacing them before their life expectancy. We provide high quality, heat-treated pallets that are certified for international trade (ISPM-15) and stand by our ability to manufacture durable pallets to meet any specifications made by our customers.
Our Products & Durability
Franke’s Wood Products prides ourselves on crafting pallets made from wood and plastic for our customers. We work with companies across countless industries to help them move their products and maintain their supply chain. Regardless of custom specifications and packaging design requirements, we can continuously provide high quality, durable pallets for your company. We believe in being a reliable supplier and shipping the best product.
Understanding Your Suppliers Industry Experience
Industry experience can make or break a relationship between your company and a supplier. When working with a pallet supplier it’s important they have the years of experience and industry knowledge to back up their products. Excellent customer service and customization options are great to find in a supplier, but knowing they have experience and are solution- oriented means you can trust their opinion. Franke’s has over 50 years of experience manufacturing and delivering pallets. We know this industry inside and out, and utilize our expertise to ensure our customers get the best custom product for their shipping needs.
Are They Following Pallet Guidelines?
For anyone involved in international shipping that utilizes pallets you are familiar with the international standards for any wood materials that are shipped across borders. These standards have been set to mitigate the spread of pests and potential disease through international shipping.
Franke’s Wood Products has been certified to manufacture and ship pallets that follow these international guidelines. We manufacture pallets with heat-treated wood to follow the ISPM-15 requirements. These pallets are certified ready to ship and export your goods outside of the United States and across international borders.
Franke’s Wood Products: Our Dedicated Service
We are proud to have served many industries for half of a century. Our leading knowledge and expertise gives us the advantage when offering solutions to our clients problems. Each service we provide for our customers is designed to provide exactly what they need. We believe that offering high quality products and being solution-oriented fosters a happy relationship between our company and yours. Contact us to order your pallets today.